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    Default Acker Bilk has died

    Jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk, has died after a lengthy illness, aged 85.
    His most famous number Stranger on the Shore was the UK's biggest selling single of 1962.
    Born Bernard Stanley Bilk, he changed his name to Acker - Somerset slang for mate - after learning to play the clarinet in the Army.

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